Is liquid cooling better than air cooling in all cases?

[nugget827]

I recently bought a Fx-8350 and it came with a air heatsink with pre-applied thermal paste. Beforehand I used an asetek 510LC liquid cooler with my old fx-4300. I was wondering if the reused liquid cooling would in all cases be better than the air cooling, even if I applied the thermal paste decently.Thanks

 

[Justiceinacan]

The stock heatsink is terrible. A good aftermarket air heatsink, however, there isn't much different.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I recently bought a Fx-8350 and it came with a air heatsink with pre-applied thermal paste. Beforehand I used an asetek 510LC liquid cooler with my old fx-4300. I was wondering if the reused liquid cooling would in all cases be better than the air cooling, even if I applied the thermal paste decently.Thanks

Your Asetek 510LC would be a decent upgrade for the stock 8350 heatsink. The stock is barely sufficient to cool the 125w chip.

 

[geofelt]

FX-8350 is a hot processor.
If it came with the new wraith cooler, you could go ahead and try it.
Since you still have your asetek cooler, you could try that too and see how you do.
I might caution you that if you used an inexpensive motherboard with your previous FX-4300, you are unlikely to get good results from your FX-8
What is your motherboard?

 

[nugget827]

FX-8350 is a hot processor.
If it came with the new wraith cooler, you could go ahead and try it.
Since you still have your asetek cooler, you could try that too and see how you do.
I might caution you that if you used an inexpensive motherboard with your previous FX-4300, you are unlikely to get good results from your FX-8
What is your motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-970A-D3.

I recently bought a GTX 1070 and since then I have been down a rabbit hole due to my failure to remember the most important issue of all: bottlenecking. My idea was that I buy the Fx-8350 in the meantime, and deal with a moderate bottleneck, as it was fairly cheap, and then save up for the next year to buy a new intel motherboard and processor. I have checked and know that my mobo is compatible with the 8350, but as for how well it pairs with it, I don't know.

 

[geofelt]

FX-8350 is a hot processor.
If it came with the new wraith cooler, you could go ahead and try it.
Since you still have your asetek cooler, you could try that too and see how you do.
I might caution you that if you used an inexpensive motherboard with your previous FX-4300, you are unlikely to get good results from your FX-8
What is your motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-970A-D3.

I recently bought a GTX 1070 and since then I have been down a rabbit hole due to my failure to remember the most important issue of all: bottlenecking. My idea was that I buy the Fx-8350 in the meantime, and deal with a moderate bottleneck, as it was fairly cheap, and then save up for the next year to buy a new intel motherboard and processor. I have checked and know that my mobo is compatible with the 8350, but as for how well it pairs with it, I don't know.

Looks like you will have issue;
Here is a link on more:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2384024/motherboard-tier-list-970-chipset.html

Do not throw good money after bad and buy a new amd motherboard.
If you can, return the FX-8350.
You can buy a i3-6100 for $125, a lga1151 motherboard for $50 and 8gb of ddr4 ram for $35.
Here is what it can do compared to a FX-8370:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10543/the-skylake-core-i3-51w-cpu-review-i3-6320-6300-6100-tested

 

[nugget827]

FX-8350 is a hot processor.
If it came with the new wraith cooler, you could go ahead and try it.
Since you still have your asetek cooler, you could try that too and see how you do.
I might caution you that if you used an inexpensive motherboard with your previous FX-4300, you are unlikely to get good results from your FX-8
What is your motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-970A-D3.

I recently bought a GTX 1070 and since then I have been down a rabbit hole due to my failure to remember the most important issue of all: bottlenecking. My idea was that I buy the Fx-8350 in the meantime, and deal with a moderate bottleneck, as it was fairly cheap, and then save up for the next year to buy a new intel motherboard and processor. I have checked and know that my mobo is compatible with the 8350, but as for how well it pairs with it, I don't know.

Looks like you will have issue;
Here is a link on more:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2384024/motherboard-tier-list-970-chipset.html

Do not throw good money after bad and buy a new amd motherboard.
If you can, return the FX-8350.
You can buy a i3-6100 for $125, a lga1151 motherboard for $50 and 8gb of ddr4 ram for $35.
Here is what it can do compared to a FX-8370:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10543/the-skylake-core-i3-51w-cpu-review-i3-6320-6300-6100-tested

Sadly, the 8350 is non-refundable and non-exchangable. I'm just going to use it in the meantime because I might as well rather than let it go to waste. Thank you for giving me an alternative in the future though!